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After cake attack on Mona Lisa: Castello CUBE has to be hidden in a safe in the Swiss Alps!

It is the most expensive cube ever made, funded by the booming cryptocurrency Castello Coin. For now, the world-famous Castello CUBE will no longer be open to the public – to protect it from damage and theft.




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Gustav Klimt, one of the world's most important artists, is online

The Klimt Foundation presents the first comprehensive virtual record of the Jugendstil artist: www.klimt-database.com




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Dorotheum presents a rediscovered Raphael drawing

Expected to exceed a million euros: A study for the Vatican Stanze by Raphael, Master of the High Renaissance is to be offered for sale in the Old Masters Auction, on 25th October 2023




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Coconut Grove Arts Festival set to Celebrate 60 Years of Artistic Expression

Considered one of the top 10 outdoor art shows in the country, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival will once again bring Miami's beloved neighborhood to life as it celebrates six decades of creativity during President's Day weekend.




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Debra Drexler, Renowned Curator & UH Art Professor, Commends Danielle Nelisse's 'Jungle Garden' at Hui No' Eau Gallery

Discover the profound artistic expression in Danielle Nelisse's "Jungle Garden," lauded by esteemed curator Debra Drexler and University of Hawaii Art Professor, embodying hope, resilience, and nature's renewal after the Maui fires. Immerse yourself in this vibrant exhibition at Hui No' Eau Art Gallery, where Nelisse's oil painting and others represent a symbol of nature's power against the backdrop of Maui's lush landscape.




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60 Years, 280 Artists, 15 Mediums: The Harmony of Creativity at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival

The Coconut Grove Arts Festival is slated for Presidents' Day Weekend on February 17, 18 and 19, 2024. General Admission and VIP Collector's Club tickets have already gone on sale. The 60th iteration of this highly frequented outdoor festival promises to display a diversity of styles, textures, media, colors, and cultures to fill the senses.




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Charlotte, NC Author Publishes Art Therapy Book

A Collection of Poems, Songs, Drawings, and Paintings for Art Therapy Sessions.




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Smithtown, NY Author Publishes Fiction Novel

Who Will Be By His Side While He Tries To Help Himself




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Siloam Springs, AR Author Publishes Biography

How Much Did His Actions Impact The Poultry Industry.




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Easton, MD Author Publishes Fiction Stories

What Stories Can The Walls Of A House Tell.




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Coeur d'Alene, ID Author Publishes Fantasy Novel

After They Show Her She Deserves A Family Will She Be Able To Save Them In Time




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Radcliff, KY Author Publishes Holiday Short Story

Will She Be Able To Come Up With A Solution In Time




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Dublin, OH Author Publishes Science Fiction Novel

What Has He Learned To Help Earth Grow




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Morristown, NJ Author Publishes Spiritual Mathematical Discussion

What Do We Know That Can Help Us Understand Our Reality




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Bronx, NY Author Publishes Children's Book

Will Papa Bear Be Able To Solve This Mystery




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Rochester, MN Author Publishes Poetry Collection

Life Is Something We All Go Through And Humanity Is Something We All Have.




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Sixes, OR Author Publishes Adventure Novel

Will Love Conquer All When They Are Pulled Apart In This Apocalyptic World.




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Greensburg, PA Author Publishes Action Novel

How Will They Navigate The New Adventure Life Has Set For Them.




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Slingerlands, NY Author Publishes Poetry Collection

We Can Look To Nature To See Similarities To Humanity.




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North Little Rock, AR Author Publishes Fiction Book

What Does Life Have In-store For Him




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Maumelle, AR Author Publishes Scripture Study

What Does His Gospel Really Mean




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Magalia, CA Author Publishes Autobiography

What Has Life Showed Him And What Has He Learned




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Swedish Energy Giant to Invest Billions in Clean Energy Projects in Germany

Vattenfall commits over EUR five billion by 2028 to fossil-free energy production, e-mobility and related services in Europe's largest economy




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Fort Myers, FL Teenage Author Publishes Suspense Novel

A Girl Tries to Escape Her Life and Finds Challenges She Could Never Imagine




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Levittown, PA Author Publishes Children's Book

What Will Happen If We Don't Take Care Of The World Around Us




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Albemarle, NC Author Publishes Children's Book

Help Him Learn A New Skill That Is Passed Down Through His Family.




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North Chesterfield, VA Author Publishes Mystery Novel

A Young Man Returns Home to Find Mystery, Murder, and Family Secrets




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Covington, LA Author Publishes Spiritual Poetry

Verse Told Through The Eyes Of A Man And His Faith




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SOLOMON is Redefining Men's Beard Care with Effective, Natural Ingredients

SOLOMON has launched a line of effective, natural & plant-based beard care products designed for the modern man, combining premium natural ingredients with a commitment to quality and sustainability. To celebrate, customers can enjoy 20% off their first order with the code LOVEYOURSKIN20




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Emerging Scientists Awarded Hopper-Belmont Foundation Grants to Fund Critical Pancreatic and Ovarian Cancer Research

Five of the nation's most innovative early-career cancer researchers receive Hopper-Belmont Inspiration Award




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Missouri City, TX Author Publishes Children's Book

Will She Find Her Way Home Or Will She Stay With Her New Family.




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Vernon, NJ Author Publishes Autobiography

What Has Life Taught Him Through Miracles.




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Cyclonis Launches Cyclonis World Time (FREE) to Easily Track Time Zones Around the World

Cyclonis World Time is a FREE tool for tracking time in multiple time zones. The lightweight, easy-to-use Cyclonis World Time app lets you keep track of the current time in different time zones across the globe! Cyclonis World Time includes a highly customizable desktop widget that allows you to conveniently display a personalized list of important locations directly on your desktop.




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Paris Commercial Court Rules Enigma Software Group USA, LLC and EnigmaSoft Limited can Prosecute their Lawsuit Against Malwarebytes

Paris Commercial Court rules Enigma companies can proceed with their lawsuit claims against Malwarebytes for harm caused to French consumers and Enigma companies.




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EnigmaSoft Releases SpyHunter for Mac to Combat Mac Malware's Unprecedented Rise

EnigmaSoft has released SpyHunter for Mac, an anti-malware detection and removal program built with advanced technologies. SpyHunter for Mac delivers comprehensive security in an easy-to-use interface and helps Mac users to combat increasingly prevalent and evolving malware threats.




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Serious Vulnerability in the Internet Infrastructure / Fundamental design flaw in DNSSEC discovered

The National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE has uncovered a critical flaw in the design of DNSSEC, the Security Extensions of DNS (Domain Name System). DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet.




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Travel Insurance cover for Terrorist attacks

Media coverage of terrorist attacks in Europe and America (primarily) have increased the profile, and fear of terrorist attacks for travellers. What does or doesn’t travel insurance typically cover in the event of terrorist attacks? Obviously there are a myriad of travel insurance policies, so there’s no simple answer and you should always check your […]

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Sweet Home Alabama – the twists and turns of a contested song

Great songs rise above ugly intentions, and Sweet Home Alabama deserves to be listened to with a critical and attentive ear. Beneath the redneck rumble and tumbling there's a slice of American History to be discovered.

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15 Travel Mistakes on a trip to Italy

Travel mistakes in Italy. Having travelled and lived in Italy for the last twenty years, it’s safe to say I’ve made plenty of these travel mistakes. Italy, on the whole, is one of the easiest and most pleasant countries in Europe to travel to, but there are many common travel mistakes travelling in Italy that […]

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Food Tourism in Italy – A Guide

Food tourism in Italy is a growing sector, notwithstanding the fact that Italians have been producing some of the best food in the world for centuries. Producing great food is one thing, making it accessible to visitors is another, and for many years it was not necessarily easy to plan your whole Italian holiday around […]

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Ministry of Truth and Other Information Takes Over Education

The Minister of Truth and Other Information (MOTOI), Alan Bladder, has announced the Department of Social Scrutiny's new 5 year plan for education, following the acquisition of the Ministry for Indoctrination (mFi) in a back street knife fight in Peckham last week.

MOTOI will now...




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OpenBSD -current is now "7.6-current"

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) updated the version of OpenBSD -current to "7.6-current".

Those running the latest-and-greatest [via a sufficiently new snapshot or built from source] no longer need to use "-D snap" with pkg_add(1) (and pkg_info(1)).





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Christmas Quiz 2024

The MRC Christmas quiz saga continues

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SETRIS II

A classic 1996 game has been rebranded and updated

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Maybe Social Media Is More Like an Addictive and Harmful Drug than a Utility


I recently wrote that Facebook should be regulated like a utility, but maybe social media is more like an addictive, harmful drug than a utility. The companies that push social media on us are like drug dealers. Given my libertarian sympathies, adults should generally be free to use the drugs they want, but society should regulate promotion and distribution of the substance and protect children from being preyed upon by the dealers.

The real problem with Facebook's behavior is the revelation of its rampant institutional lying. In the XCheck story, we learned that after Facebook spent more than $130 million to create an Independent Oversight Board to oversee its content-moderation decisions, Facebook executives routinely lied to that board. Facebook told the Oversight Board that XCheck was only used in "a small number of decisions," even though the program had grown to include 5.8 million users in 2020.

"We're not actually doing what we say we do publicly," and the company's actions constitute a "breach of trust," reads a confidential internal review done by Facebook.
We also learned -- shockingly -- that the CEO and COO of the trillion-dollar behemoth are regularly involved in decisions of what posts to remove when such posts are made by certain people who are exempted from Facebook's community guidelines and content-moderation procedures. This is all while Facebook asserted that it applied the same standards to everyone.

Apparently, XCheck was created to mitigate "p.r. fires" or negative media attentions when Facebook takes the wrong action against a high-profile VIP. Even worse than the existence of the XCheck program was Facebook's dishonesty about it, reflecting the state of mind of a company that knew it was doing something wrong -- and still did it anyway.

These revelations strengthen the case that Facebook likely serves increasingly as the censorship arm of the US government, just as it does for other governments around the world.

That last sentence gets to the heart of the matter, and explains why collective action against social media dealers has been so slow: the elite class wants to control our speech, and is happy to use social media dealers to do it.

Facebook is soma.

What is soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? In the context of the novel, soma is a recreational drug that several of the main characters take throughout the story. The government in Brave New World strongly encourages individuals to take soma as a way to increase the happiness and complacency of the population. Soma can be taken as a pill or as a powder and can also be released as an aerosol. It is freely available to everyone in the novel. Its inclusion in the text is central to the novel's themes of complacency and resistance in society as well as the theme of escapism.



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Eisenhower Warned: "public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite"

President Eisenhower famously warned America about the risk of the military-industrial complex, but he also foresaw the risk that public policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

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"There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell."


What else needs to be said? Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia gets straight to the point. When there is no fear of God, everything is permitted.




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Inflation Is About Expections, Not Only Reality


In this new era of stagflation it's important to remember that inflation is caused by expectations as much as by reality. If people and companies expect prices to go up, they'll start charging more for their products and services -- which is inflation. Inflation will only abate when expectations change.

So when we see a chart like this one it's not only that President Biden's policies created inflationary conditions, his policies also created the self-fulfilling expectation of inflation.

Presidents Obama and Trump spent boatloads of borrowed money and ran up the deficit, but something about President Biden (and, of course, the global environment) really spooked people.




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Boston University scientists create 80%-lethal COVID variant

This seems insane. Why create a more transmissable and lethal version of COVID?

DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus -- combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain -- that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study.

The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.

Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.'

Gain of function research - when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly - is thought to be at the center of Covid's origin.

We may never know the origin of COVID-19 with certainty, but gain-of-function research needs to stop.